Printworks Gallery
45 Sir Isaacs Walk,
Colchester, Essex CO1 1JJ England
Contact: Elly Robinson 01206 562049 day, 01787 311531
evening
New Engravings
on Wood"
by COLIN SEE-PAYNTON
From Saturday 1st
November to Saturday 22nd November 1997
 Colin See-Paynton is the most accomplished
wood engraver who specialises in wildlife subjects,
particularly birds and fish, capturing them in
movement in their natural elements of air and water.
This will be Colin's third show at
Printworks after a break of four years, during which
he prepared for his acclaimed touring show: "The
Incisive Eye. Since then, Colin has produced some
brand new engravings, which are exclusive to
Printworks, and all 33 engravings in this show will
be new to the gallery.
Colin has recently been invited to
Alaska as part of a team of artists to record the
threatened wildlife by the Artists for Nature
Foundation. His exquisite engravings have earned him
many commissions, awards and distinctions. His work
is in many private and public collections and he has
exhibited widely in solo shows as well as with the
Society of Wood Engravers, the Society of Wildlife
Artists, the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and
at the Barbican and the Royal Academy.
Wild Man of
Wivenhoe
Linocuts by JAMES
D0DDS
plus Launch of the book of the same name
by MARTIN NEWELL, illustrated with linocuts by JAMES
D0DDS with Performances of the poem by MARTIN NEWELL on
Saturday 29th November at 12noon and 3pm
Exhibition runs from
Saturday 29th November until end December, 1997
To quote Jon Canter: "Wivenhoe
is an Essex village on the River Colne.
"Part suburbia, part
bohemia With a dash of academia"
But then it is also a verb. It
means to stagnate in a pub for hours. Then days. Then
years.
"Till one day you wake and
find When your summer's far behind Life's great
lawn remains unmowed And you have been
Wivenhoed"
The Wild Man of Wivenhoe is a verse
legend as told by the inhabitants of a Wivenhoe
pub...each has a tale to tell about the saucer eyed,
hairy, naked young man dredged out of the river by
fishermen. The artist James Dodds and the poet Martin
Newell live, work and drink in Wivenhoe. Their
lovingly detailed tribute to the spirit of the place
is as authentic as the tang of cheese and onion on a
beard hair. Witty, elegant and wise, this is a tale
for everyone who has ever left a lawn unmowed or
collapsed on one in a moment of miss-spent youth.
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